Humax LCD TV Has Seagate Hard Drive for Built-In DVR

LD25 Series consumer electronics hard drive
(December 12, 2005)

Seagate Technology , the world's leading hard drive company, today announced that Humax Co. Ltd. has chosen Seagate's LD25 Series consumer electronics (CE) hard drive for its LCD TV with a built-in digital video recorder (DVR). The adoption of the LD25 series demonstrates how Seagate is continuously enabling compelling new applications in the fast growing Consumer Electronics market. The system will be available in North America, Europe and Australia with screen sizes of 26, 32, and 40 inches.

Seagate's new LD25 Series is the first consumer electronics hard drive in a compact, 2.5-inch form factor designed for non-mobile applications -- an entirely new concept for inside-the-box CE storage that enables smaller, simpler, cooler-running and more cost-effective game consoles, home entertainment devices and small footprint media PCs. Seagate's industry leading DynaPlay technology, available with the LD25 Series, optimizes the hard drive for media streaming, power consumption and content security.

Seagate LD25 Series disc drives also make it possible for hot new game consoles to expand their capabilities far beyond traditional gaming -- to enable them to expand and keep new soundtracks for games, to rip and store entire libraries of music and video, and to play back multimedia, centralizing other entertainment functions with the gaming function.

About Humax

Founded in 1989, Humax Co. Ltd of Korea is one of the world's leading digital satellite set-top box manufacturers, exporting its products to more than 90 countries across the globe. Listed on the Korean stock exchange (KOSDAQ), the company's international headquarters and R&D facility are based in Korea with offices in Dubai, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. In 1997, the company opened a manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland that won a Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2002. Further production facilities are located in Korea, India and China.

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.